This coming Saturday I will start a three-week visit to a university with teams performing research in neuroeconomics. The purpose of this visit is to perform an “ethnography” of neuroeconomics, focused on how interdisciplinarity works in practice. Among other purposes, this study will provide me with qualitative insights which will complement one of the other projects [...]
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Neuroeconomics: arriving at a consensual definition
Posted in neuroeconomics, scientometrics, tagged neuroeconomics, scientometrics on November 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Opinions about neuroeconomics vary enormously – to begin with, there is little agreement about what even *counts* as neuroeconomics. In my historical study of neuroeconomics, I am confronted to this difficulty right from the first step. Before even analyzing it, what is neuroeconomics, the field that I am studying? There is yet no journal of [...]
